We report here on the isolation, cloning, and expression of two M r 21,000 proteins from rat pancreatic acinar cells, the rat-Tmp21 (transmembrane protein, M r 21,000) and the rat-p24A. Both proteins are transmembrane proteins with type I topology and share weak but significant homology to one another (23% identity). We further show the cloning and characterization of the human homologs, hum-Tmp21, which is expressed in two variants (Tmp21-I and Tmp21-II), and hum-p24A. Tmp21 proteins and p24A have highly conserved COOH-terminal tails, which contain motifs related to the endoplasmic reticulum retention and retrieval consensus sequence KKXX. The rat-p24 sequence is identical to the hamster
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